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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Autoimmun. 2022 Jul 8;131:102860. doi: 10.1016/j.jaut.2022.102860

Figure 5.

Figure 5.

Increased plasma S. aureus DNA levels in patients with SLE and their correlation with lupus-related autoantibody levels. (A) Presence of plasma S. aureus DNA (absolute copy number per mL blood or ratio of S. aureus DNA versus total 16S rDNA) measured by qPCR in extracted microbial DNA from plasma samples of patients with SLE (n = 32) and healthy controls (n = 25). (B) Spearman correlation coefficient (r) and P values of S. aureus DNA copy number per mL blood and levels of each lupus-related autoantibody. Autoantibody levels were evaluated in plasma samples by ELISA.